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Volunteering at Kijabe Environment Volunteers (KENVO) 

Consolata Gathoni Gitau
At KENVO's Environmental and Conservation Department, I was able to participate in detailed bird, biodiversity and threatened plant species monitoring in Kereita Forest as part of an ITF restoration project, as well as...

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Documenting the Birds of Lewa-Borana Landscape

Eunice Kamau
Lewa-Borana Landscape (LBL) has over 490 bird species and using the pointers above, I have been able to develop a bird’s photo evidence database which is currently over 80%. The database helps us document the birds of...

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Researching Seagrass Habitats Along the Kenyan Coast 

Susana Wachia Kihia
Engaging in seagrass conservation research along the Kenyan coast with dynamic approaches that integrate the skills I gained from the WiCT Training as part of my Master’s (by thesis) in Zoology program at Stellenbosch...

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Game Changing Research Equipment for Masters Project

Zipporah Mureithi
Gaining access to research equipment including a new laptop and hard disk has been a game changer for my master’s project. I am now able to carry out data analysis and communication of findings more efficiently.

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Grey Crowned Cranes Census, Kenya 2023

Cynthia Gichimu
Highlights from my participation in the nationwide grey crowned cranes census organized by the International Crane Foundation, and other partners between February and March 2023 in Kenya to survey one of the most...

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Seeking AudioMoth in SF Bay Area

Hello Everyone.  Dire situation here. A group or UC Berkeley undergrads is looking to borrow an AudioMoth. Theirs was lost in transit during delivery and their entire...

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I have an AudioMoth that they are welcome to.  I'm down in Moss Beach (just north of Half Moon Bay).

You're awesome Tim, thank you!  However, we ordered another from GroupGets yesterday and it's arriving tomorrow, so we (should) be good to go : )  Now if I can only get LabMaker to reimburse me for the one that didn't arrive, that would fix everything.  Unfortunately they've been incredibly slow to reply ....sigh

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Looking for tips about masters in Wildlife forensics and possible places to get some work experience.

Update:Thanks for recent comments, this post is quite old now my apologies for not updating this any sooner. I have since finished my Masters and am currently a PhD candidate at...

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Did you find anything?

Yes, I considered that one as well. At the time of this post (2016) the full masters wasn't available yet, only the online certificate courses. Unfortunately, both the masters and certificate courses were to expensive for me at the time. 

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Replacement (cheaper) foam mic covers

Hi everyone; looking for a source of (cheaper) foam mic covers suitable for the stub mics on a Song Meter Mini.  I've always purchased the 'official' ones but as the price of...

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Hi! I got these ones from Amazon. Also, I was tired of creatures eating them so I created a shield using window mesh screen

 

Hi - thanks for your reply.  I've been thinking along the same lines though unsure where I'd purchase 'acoustic foam' from.  I've made 'dead cats' before for some of my active monitoring mics and that material is not too difficult to source but the only acoustic foam I've come across is the type for deadening sound in studio etc. - the exact opposite of what I want!!  The search continues ....!

Brilliant - thank you.!  Great idea about the screen too - I'm replacing some of them monthly so may try that myself.  Have you found any issues with the mesh generating any tones with wind?

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TWS2023 - get in touch

Hi, I'll stick around at the TWS2023 Louisville with our friends from e-obs to do some live Firetail demos and discuss your ideas and requirements. Would be great to get in...

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I'm registered with the TWS2023 app, so feel free to nudge me there as well

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Payment for ecosystem services - mobile money case study?

Hello everyone! I'm writing an article for the GSMA's flagship annual report on the intersection of mobile money and payment for ecosystem services. I'm looking to...

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The folks at AB Entheos in Nairobi are also looking at wild life damage insurance https://ab-entheos.co.ke/

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DeepFaune: a software for AI-based identification of mammals in camera-trap pictures and videos

Hello everyone, just wanted to advertise here the DeepFaune initiative that I lead with Vincent Miele. We're building AI-based species recognition models for camera-trap...

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Hello to all, new to this group. This is very exciting technology. can it work for ID of individual animals? we are interested in Ai for identifying individual jaguars (spots) and andean Bears (face characteristics). Any recommendation? contact? thanks!

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That's a very interesting question and use case (I'm not from deepfaune). I'm playing with this at the moment and intend to integrate it into my other security software that can capture and send video alerts. I should have this working within a few weeks I think.

The structure of that software is that it is two stage, the first stage identifies that there is an animal and it's bounding box and then there's a classification stage. I intend to merge the two stages so that it behaves like a yolo model so that the output is bounding boxes as well as what type of animal it is.

However, my security software can cascade models. So if you were able to train a single stage classifier that identifies your particular bears, then you could cascade all of these models in my software to generate an alert with a video saying which bear it was.

Hi @GermanFore ,

I work with the BearID Project on individual identification of brown bears from faces. More recently we worked on face detection across all bear species and ran some tests with identifying Andean bears. You can find details in the paper I linked below. We plan to do more work with Andean bears in 2024.

I would love to connect with you. I'll send you a message with my email address.

Regards,

Ed

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Democratising Access to Earth Observation Data, Saving Wildlife across East Africa with Digital Earth Africa's Dr. Kenneth Mubea

Kenneth Mubea
Watch and read our interview with Dr. Kenneth Mubea, Capacity Development Lead at Digital Earth Africa, enabling the use of earth observations to address key conservation challenges across the African continent.

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Hey @mubea :) Super excited about the insightful work your team at doing at Digital Earth Africa and I've gone ahead to add an entry of DEA as an organisation onto...
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